Opening of the New Waterloo by Queen Mary: A Great War History To his deep regret, his Majesty was debarred, by temporary indis position, from inaugurating the reconstructed and enlarged premises of Waterloo Station and the ceremony was graciously performed by the Queen.
During the war it was fitly said of Waterloo that it was "the station that never slept," and its record of ceaseless activity during those memorable times is surely unexampled. As England's "military line," which normally served military and naval centres at Aldewshot, Borden, Pirbright, Bisley, Portsmouth, Salisbury Plain, Weymouth, and Plymouth, the London and South-Western Railway Company was immediately placed under a severe strain the outbreak of hostilities August, igs. The Territorial Army, which had just opened ity annual summer training, required instant re-transfer to their mobile zation depots and to strategic defensive positions, involving the use of 282 special trains on the concluding edge of a heavy Bank Holiday traffic.
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